GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| approbation | commendation |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |